Dimensions
160 x 240 x 10mm
Graverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-
Victorian Scotland - criminals, gravediggers and middle-
class medical students alike abstracted newly-buried corpses
to send to the anatomy schools. Only after the trials of the
infamous murderers Burke and Hare and the passing of the
Anatomy Act of 1832 did the grisly trade end. From burial
grounds in the heart of Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh to
quiet country graveyards in the Scottish Borders and
Aberdeenshire, this book takes you to every cemetery ever
raided, and reveals where you can find extant pieces of
antiresurrectionist graveyard furniture, from mortsafes,
coffin cages and underground vaults to watchtowers and
morthouses.
